Classic fiction: general and literary

Here you will find the complete novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the chronological order of their original publication.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a spy for Charles II, a playwright, poet, and novelist, and the first English woman to make a living from writing.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volee, Le Scarabee d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall, Manuscrit trouve dans une bouteille, Une descente dans le maelstrom, La Verite sur le cas de M.

Die "Lettres persanes" (erste Ausgabe 1721) des franzosischen Staatsphilosophen der Aufklarung Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede de Montesquieu (so sein vollstandiger Name) ist eines der wirkmachtigsten Bucher der Weltliteratur, zugleich eines der erfolgreichsten zu seiner Zeit.

Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866.

"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections.

The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism.

Extrait : Un soir du mois d'aout (elle avait alors dix-huit ans), ils l'entrainerent a l'assemblee de Colleville.

Escrita en la "decada prodigiosa" de la narrativa espanola del XIX esta novela supuso una primera aproximacion a los dominios del realismo-naturalismo.

Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592-93, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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Contenu de la collection:À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDUDu côté de chez Swann (1913)À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919)Le côté de Guermantes (1920–21)Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921–22)La prisonnière (1923)Albertine disparue (La fugitive) (1925)Le temps retrouvé (1927)Les plaisirs et les jours (1896)John Ruskin: La bible d'Amiens, translated by Proust (1904)John Ruskin: Sésame et les lys, translated by Proust (1906)Pastiches et mélanges (1919)Chroniques (1927)Jean Santeuil (1952, 1971) (see update v.

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter.

When four siblings journey to the seashore for a holiday, one of them unwittingly summons the sister of a mermaid who is captured by a circus, and the children set out to save the imprisoned being.

Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication.

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H.

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H.

Penrod and Sam is a novel by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1916.

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe.

Inglaterra, siglo XIX.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere.

A quelques pas devant moi, sur une pelouse bordee de framboisiers verts, se tenait une jeune fille, grande et elancee, vetue d'une robe rose a raies et coiffee d'un petit fichu blanc ; quatre jeunes gens faisaient cercle autour d'elle, et elle les frappait au front, a tour de role, avec une de ces fleurs grises dont le nom m'echappe, mais que les enfants connaissent bien : elles forment de petits sachets qui eclatent avec bruit quand on leur fait heurter quelque chose de dur.

The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians.

The story takes place in Hungary, between two rival families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitzings.

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran.

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it.

"The Silver Key" is a short story written by H.

Penrod and Sam is a novel by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1916.

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

Here you will find the complete novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the chronological order of their original publication.

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602.

This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection.

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie.

The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions.

The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland.

Der Kanonenclub in Baltimore wurde während des Sezessionskrieges gegründet und versammelt Spezialisten für Geschütze in seinen Reihen.

Penrod and Sam is a novel by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1916.

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a spy for Charles II, a playwright, poet, and novelist, and the first English woman to make a living from writing.

The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.

One of the most popular novels of the early twentieth century, Booth Tarkington's The Two Vanrevels is a gripping and entertaining romp that effortlessly weaves together many of the elements that define the author's oeuvre, including a passionate love triangle, a case of mistaken identity, and a look at how political and social events can often intrude on the personal sphere.

"Three Sundays in a Week" depicts a grumpy Uncle Rumgudgeon who refuses to grant his nephew Bobby permission to marry his daughter and, therefore, inherit a portion of Rumgudgeon's estate.

Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876.

Benjamin Franklin's writings have inspired millions throughout the years, and his advice on how to earn and save money is timeless.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere.

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather.

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville.